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One of the focus of IRCDL 2014 is on emphasizing the multidisciplinary nature of the research on digital libraries which not only goes from computer science to humanities but also crosses among areas in the same field ranging, for example, from archival to librarian sciences or from information management systems to new knowledge environments. This is a continued challenge for the DL field and there is the need to continue to contribute to improve the cooperation between the many communities that share common objectives.

Another focus of IRCDL 2014 is on the profound change that is happening on the world of scientific communication, where the object of scientific communication is no longer a linear text, although digital, but an object-centric network that consists of text, data, images, videos, blogs, etc. This change is likely to change the nature and the role of the Digital Library and its relationship with the thematic data center. It is vitally important that this change is presented and discussed at IRCDL 2014.

Topics

Topics include but are not limited to:

Formal and methodological foundations of digital libraries

DL Architectures and infrastructures

System interoperability and data integration

Ontologies and linked data for digital libraries

Metadata creation, management, and curation

User interfaces and visualisation

Information Access, Usability, and Personalization

Long-term preservation

Collaborative and adaptive environments

Social networking and networked information

Quality and evaluation of digital libraries

Digital libraries for education and learning

Digital libraries for the evaluation of research quality and scholarly impact (bibliometric indicators, citation analysis, ...)

Exploitation of digital cultural heritage collections

Semantic publishing and digital libraries

Linking data to publications

New models for scholarly publishing

Submissions

Research papers, describing original ideas on those topics and on other fundamental aspects of digital libraries and technology, are solicited. Moreover, short papers on early research results, demos, and projects are also welcome. Research papers presenting original works should not exceed 12 pages, whereas short papers on early research results should not exceed 6 pages, and papers presenting demos or projects should not exceed 4 pages.

Submissions must be formatted according to Authors Instructions for Springer-Verlag LNCS Proceedings. Accepted papers in PDF format will be published in on-line proceedings (max 12 pages) at the time of the conference and presented at the conference. After the conference some selected authors will be invited to submit a revised version of their paper for a possible inclusion in the post-proceedings volume. The revised version of each paper must take into account the suggestions and the comments received during the discussion at the conference; the revised versions are going to be reviewed by at least two reviewers.